"Viva Romer!" That was the word from Tom Tancredo yesterday morning on Peter Boyles's radio show, responding to the dirty-tricks campaign designed to turn Latino voters against Michael Hancock by claiming that Tancredo has endorsed Hancock.

He has never met Hancock, or talked with anyone on his campaign. The only person he talked to was Boyles, who, over lunch, suggested that Tancredo would like Hancock's story -- which prompted a response from Tancredo that he'd "probably vote for the guy"... if he lived in Denver. Boyles talked about that on his radio show the next day, and a week later, after a dirty-trick robocall from an anonymous operative and a Hancock-bashing e-mail from a far-from-anonymous Crisanta Duran, deputy manager of the Chris Romer campaign, the word is out: "Viva Romer."

There's more to come, of course. When Typhoid Tom is involved, there always is. Tune in to Boyles' show after 7 a.m. today for the next salvo in this tempest in a Tea Party pot.

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Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.

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